Isabel Allende and Luís Alberto Urrea. Photo credit: Robin Platzer, Twin Images
Isabel Allende. Photo credit: Robin Platzer, Twin Images
Margot Lee Shetterly and Doron Weber. Photo credit: Robin Platzer, Twin Images
Robin Benway and Elizabeth Acevedo. Photo credit: Robin Platzer, Twin Images
Elizabeth Acevedo. Photo credit: Robin Platzer, Twin Images
Monique Truong (who accepted for Yoko Tawada), Margaret Mitsutani, and Harold Augenbraum. Photo credit: Robin Platzer, Twin Images
Monique Truong (who accepted for Yoko Tawada) and Margaret Mitsutani. Photo credit: Robin Platzer, Twin Images
Mary Jo Bang and Justin Phillip Reed. Photo credit: Robin Platzer, Twin Images
Justin Phillip Reed. Photo credit: Robin Platzer, Twin Images
Jeffrey C. Stewart and Annette Gordon-Reed. Photo credit: Robin Platzer, Twin Images
Jeffrey C. Stewart. Photo credit: Robin Platzer, Twin Images
Sigrid Nunez and Laila Lalami. Photo credit: Robin Platzer, Twin Images
Nick Offerman and Lisa Lucas. Photo credit: Robin Platzer, Twin Images
Jeffrey C. Stewart and Sigrid Nunez. Photo credit: Beowulf Sheehan
Elizabeth Acevedo and Justin Phillip Reed. Photo credit: Beowulf Sheehan
Elizabeth Acevedo and Jeffrey C. Stewart. Photo credit: Beowulf Sheehan
Sigrid Nunez, 2018 National Book Award Winner for Fiction. Photo credit: Beowulf Sheehan
Elizabeth Acevedo, 2018 National Book Award Winner for Young People’s Literature. Photo credit: Beowulf Sheehan
Justin Phillip Reed, 2018 National Book Awards Poetry Winner. Photo credit: Beowulf Sheehan
Justin Phillip Reed. Photo credit: Robin Platzer, Twin Images
Jeffrey C. Stewart, 2018 National Book Award Winner for Nonfiction. Photo credit: Beowulf Sheehan
Margaret Mitsutani, translator, 2018 NBAward for Translated Literature Winner. (Not pictured: author, Yoko Tawada) Photo credit: Beowulf Sheehan
2018 NBAwards Winners: Elizabeth Acevedo, Justin Phillip Reed, Margaret Mitsutani, Jeffrey C. Stewart, Sigrid Nunez. Photo credit: Beowulf Sheehan
The 69th National Book Awards, hosted by Nick Offerman, were streamed live from New York City on November 14, 2018. Lifetime achievement awards were presented to Doron Weber and Isabel Allende, followed by the announcement of the Winners of National Book Awards in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature. You can watch the full ceremony below and at our Facebook page.
2018 Winners
Fiction The Friend by Sigrid Nunez Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House
